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Post by Alucard on May 8, 2010 22:32:20 GMT -5
This feels familiar I know, you turned me onto this, but it's funny stuff. ;D It's like making a Batman toyline but with no Batman.
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Post by elmstreetkid on May 9, 2010 5:09:28 GMT -5
A lot of these are pathetically lazy, but I think I can top it for "I feel embarrassed for whoever made this" in the category of toys. I don't know, I don't think it's necessarily lazy. Having grown up with the Robin Hood line being an early favorite of mine, I don't think the fact that my Sherwood Forest came from an Ewok Village mold dilutes the awesomeness of that toy. And even after I realized its origins in 6th grade while looking through Steve Sansweet's book on Star Wars merchandise/capitalism/tyranny, it never seemed less like Sherwood Forest to me, you know? It's not like a collector's line or anything. Kids generally bring more to their toys than the other way around.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 9, 2010 5:25:26 GMT -5
I saw these, It's like Christian Bale refused the clearance for his likeness. Most likely. I imagine his likeness is tied up to tee with two words: Bruce Wayne.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 9, 2010 13:11:27 GMT -5
I saw these, It's like Christian Bale refused the clearance for his likeness. Most likely. I imagine his likeness is tied up to tee with two words: Bruce Wayne. Though seemingly it's only an issue Playmates had, as Christian Bale as John Connor can be bought in resin models and the like.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on May 9, 2010 14:13:17 GMT -5
Mattel was even lazier. Nearly the entire Masters of the Universe line used the same molds. Even better, many of their toys were made by reusing molds from toy lines from the 70's.
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Post by Goldenbane on May 9, 2010 15:18:54 GMT -5
Many of the "New Adventures of He-man" figures were repained to become "Demolition Man" figures.
Some of the old "Batman" bodys were reused for the "Marvel Super Heroes" line...Daredevil in particular looks very much like the Keaton Batman.
The animated Spiderman figures were strong...but for a while they used the EXACT same spidey but with different paints/accessories: Octopus arms spidey was the same as Ben Reilly Spidey who was the same as Scarlet Spidey, who was the same as comes with Spider car Spidey, ect.
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Post by Alucard on May 9, 2010 15:52:53 GMT -5
Many of the "New Adventures of He-man" figures were repained to become "Demolition Man" figures. Oh man, good one. I had some of the new He-Man toys but forgot about Demolition Man altogether.
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Post by Trent Valentine on May 9, 2010 16:10:51 GMT -5
The Whole WWF Hasbro Toyline. Everyone shared a mold, such as...
Lex Luger, Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan Rick Rude, Ric Flair and 1-2-3 Kid Undertaker, Big Boss and Razor Ramon Rocker Shawn Michaels and Hawk Randy Savage and Jimmy Snuka Dusty Rhodes and Andre the Giant
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 9, 2010 20:40:20 GMT -5
And Toy Biz was really guilty of this during the early years of the Marvel toys too. Repainted Captain America to make USAgent, the horrible "armor" Daredevil. Several of their Wizard exclusives were just repaints too (Shadowcat, Bullseye, etc)
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on May 9, 2010 20:59:08 GMT -5
Many of the "New Adventures of He-man" figures were repained to become "Demolition Man" figures. That's what I thought of when I saw the title of this thread, thanks to a TNTS episode.
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Post by Alucard on May 9, 2010 21:45:13 GMT -5
And Toy Biz was really guilty of this during the early years of the Marvel toys too. Repainted Captain America to make USAgent, the horrible "armor" Daredevil. Several of their Wizard exclusives were just repaints too (Shadowcat, Bullseye, etc) I had an armored Spider-Man that was obviously actually an Iron Man, right down to the arc reactor in the chestplate. It had gear that allowed for disposal of radioactive material. Um...okay.
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Post by NerdyGerdy on May 9, 2010 21:45:47 GMT -5
It's like making a Batman toyline but with no Batman. Which reminds me, all those Kenner Batman toys that had the same figure, different colors yeah, but the mold was the same.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2010 8:09:00 GMT -5
The Whole WWF Hasbro Toyline. Everyone shared a mold, such as... Lex Luger, Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan Rick Rude, Ric Flair and 1-2-3 Kid Undertaker, Big Boss and Razor Ramon Rocker Shawn Michaels and Hawk Randy Savage and Jimmy Snuka Dusty Rhodes and Andre the Giant To be fair, of those you listed, only Rude, Flair, and 123 Kid share a mold. The others simply had the same action features. There were a lot of Hasbro figures that used the same molds, though... Macho Man #1, Rick Martel, Shawn Michaels Texas Tornado/Tatanka Earthquake/Typhoon/Bam Bam Bigelow Crush 2 & 3, Scott Steiner, Mr. Perfect, Adam Bomb Razor Ramon, Bart Gunn El Matador, Jake Roberts, Billy Gunn And many others.
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Post by Toom E. Guci on May 10, 2010 8:42:41 GMT -5
Hey, Hasbro was guilty of this, too!!
After all, look at all the GI Joe relaunches just with new paint jobs: Tiger Force, Sky Patrol, Night Force, Slaughter's Marauders, Python Patrol, Drug Elimination Force, & Battle Corp.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on May 10, 2010 10:49:58 GMT -5
Transformers has done the same. Paint the plane character one color, and you have Starscream. Paint it another, and you have Skywarp. Paint it yet again, and you've got Thundercracker.
Then all you have to do is tweak the mold and give it three more paint schemes, and you've got Dirge, Thrust, and Ramjet!
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